Yet another government science report has found that the Keystone XL pipeline is not going to be risky to the environment.  This isn't the first time the Obama administration's own scientists…

The DiscoverE outreach program and its Girls Coding Club program teaching computer programming to girls from grades 3 to 9, has won a Google RISE Award.  Last year, DiscoverE, an initiative…

It's the time of year when experts on relationships give advice. Not experts on their own, but rather experts on yours. All that's needed is a weak observational study based on surveys and it…

Vaccines are the safest, cheapest and most effective way to protect against infectious diseases  but to make a good one remains a challenge, and traditional approaches are now stretched to the…

Yesterday I visited a high school in Treviso, a small centre in north-west Italy. The students of the last two years participate in a program called "masterclasses" which includes lessons on particle…

Are American jobs less stable? Do workers change employers more frequently than in the past? The reflexive answer is yes, especially since unemployment is the worst it's been in decades, but on…

You learned in high school that light has a dual nature - it exists as both waves and photons. It is this duality of light that enables the coherent transport of photons in lasers.  Physicists…

Nine years ago, Dennis Aabo Sørensen of Denmark lost the use of his left hand handling fireworks during a family holiday.  Now he has become the first amputee in the world to feel sensory-rich…

When it comes to discussion about public schools, the administation's education experts call the educators and students they claim to support 'dismal' on a regular basis. But that isn't really so,…

Stars like Sol are relatively easy to understand, because they are numerous, and live for billions of years, but high mass stars are rare and live for only a few million years. As a result,…

First principles are calculations that rely on established mathematical laws of nature without additional assumptions or special models. But when it comes to the early universe, what are those first…

Stock price movements are predictable during short windows, according to a paper written by academics in the Tippie College of Business at the University of Iowa. They write that price movements…

We're all capable of committing violence. The person who truly cannot commit violence is quite rare, and likely learned it. Some aspects of behavior depend on interactions in the brain between…

States that have decriminalized marijuana have also seen dramatic increases in children requiring medical intervention, according to research in the Annals of Emergency Medicine ("Association of…

If you listen to political pundits in Virginia and nationwide, House Bill 207 is a covert effort to hinder evolution education. (1)  The bill never mentions evolution, it instead "encourages…

Men, if you want a short term thing and not a lot of talks about "us" and "the relationship", your odds improve if your parents gave you the gift of a wider face. Women see wider faces as more…

Insects taste through hair-like structures on the body called  sensilla.  Sensilla contain receptor nerve cells, each of which is sensitive to a particular substance. In insects like the…

A new study found that the ability to follow another's gaze or look in the direction someone is pointing, two examples of receptive joint attention, is significantly heritable. Determining such…

In 2005,the Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa  revealed that the near-Earth asteroid (25143) Itokawa  has a strange peanut shape, leading to questions about why. Now, using ground-based…

'Whole Grain', like 'Natural' and 'Organic', has a lot of definitions. Fortunately for marketing departments, people often read their own positive definitions into those terms. But people invariably…